The Creed of the USSVI is Not to Forget our Purpose FORWARD BASE COMMANDER VICE COMMANDER SECRETARY TREASURER CHAPLAIN CHIEF OF THE BOAT

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1 USSVI Blueback Base Newsletter Portland, Oregon November 2013 # 233 Blueback Base, P.O. Box 1887 Clackamas, OR The Creed of the USSVI is Not to Forget our Purpose To perpetuate the memory of our shipmates who gave their lives in the pursuit of duties while serving their country. That their dedication, deeds, and supreme sacrifice be a constant source of motivation toward greater accomplishments, Pledge loyalty and patriotism to the United States of America and its Constitution.... BASE MEETINGS EETINGS... Executive Board Will Meet: Thursday November 14th, 2013 At VFW Post # SE Fern Portland, OR At 1730 ****************************** Blueback Base Meeting Thursday November 14th, 2013 At VFW Post # SE Fern Portland, OR At 1900 No Chow this Month Commanders Corner 2 Doolittle (cont) 6 Oct. Meeting Minutes 2 Ohio Replacement 6 Quote 2 Replacement (cont) 7 November Lost Boats 3 Replacement (cont) 8 Eternal Patrol 3 Honor Flights 8 October Meeting Note 3 Base Ballot 9 Doolittle Raiders 4 Word Search * 10 Good for the Order 5 Humor 5 Ron Collins 5 * Version FORWARD BATTERY BASE COMMANDER Ray Lough rayjoanlo@q.com VICE COMMANDER Bob Jackson SECRETARY Larry Johnson TREASURER Tim Smart CHAPLAIN Scott Duncan CHIEF OF THE BOAT Dave Vrooman WAYS AND MEANS CHAIRMAN NEED A VOLUNTEER FOR THIS POST MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN Dave Vrooman PUBLICITY AND SOCIAL CHAIRMAN Gary Schultz, Jr BYLAWS CHAIRMAN NEED A VOLUNTEER FOR THIS POST SMALL STORES BOSS Dylan McComiskey TRUSTEE Fred Carneau SANITARY EDITOR Bob Sumner rwsumner@pacifier.com NOMINATION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Scott Duncan PAST BASE COMMANDER Chuck Nelson HISTORIAN, POC, AND ALL AROUND GOOD GUY BOB WALTERS VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 1

2 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 2 Commander s Corner It seems only yesterday that I commented on Veteran s Day and the festivities involved. Over the year there seems to be an increase of appreciation for our military troops and it s veterans. The positive side is the younger citizens appear to have a better sense of the sacrifices that our men and women warriors give willingly. As I walk the Washington State University (Go Cougs!) wearing my vest or my Blueback jacket I am constantly stopped and thanked for my service. Many of us will be invited to a school to talk about our experiences and how our families coped with our service. I find more young women are curious about the effect military service has on the family--- either as a dependent or as the serviceman or woman. Often we (myself included) wonder where the young people are going these days when we think of the military. Some recruiter friends of mine tell me they are having little problems getting young men and women to sign-up for service. Many are re-enlisting for more than one tour. Those that came home during the Vietnam era may recall that our country had a different view on the returning serviceman and women. I experienced it first hand when my brother-inlaw came into Sea-Tac. He was really in a funk when we picked him up and brought him home. He had been spat upon and cursed by demonstrators in the airport. But I am encouraged by many of the young people today and their paying respect to the Veteran. I must mention that we have lost a great Shipmate with the passing of Hal Schumock. He was a WWII Submarine Veteran and a member of Blueback SubVets. Hal was a true gentleman and a friend. I will miss him. Hal, rest your oar, we have the watch. Respectfully Ray Lough Blueback Base BLUEBACK BASE MEETING MINUTES 10/10/ Meeting call to order by commander-- Ray Lough Invocation by-- J.D. Pledge of allegiance led by-- Ray Lough Tolling of the Bells for the Oct lost boats Moment of silence for out lost shipmates Reading of the USSVI purpose and creed-- Ray Lough Introductions by all Secretary's report: nothing at this time Treasurer's report: From now on when you write a check for (due, christmas party, ect) please make it out to the Base. It makes it easier to cash for all concerned. Tks (Continued Next column) (Blueback Base Meeting Minutes Continued) Commander's Report: We had a maiden outing for our Honor Guard group. We went thru a lot of hoops to get the widow a flag for her deceased husband. We informed her that every Veteran is entitled to a flag so she went back to her funeral director and got one At the same time our illustrious Corpsman, Collie Collins did some "cumshaw" work and got a flag fromwillamette National without all the paperwork. BZ Collie. o now we have a spare flag for emergencies. Tonight we have a presentation by Fred and Tudor Davis about the Honor Flight for Veterans. So let's get to it Meeting turned over to Fred and Tudor Davis. This a great and informative presentation w/slides and an excellent narrative by Fred. All Veteran's are eligible for these Honor Flights but there is a priority as to when you can go. They are starting with WWII Vets first and will work their was up the line (Korea, Vietnam, and so on). So it may be awhile for a lot of us to be eligible. So hang in there guys /50 Drawing quick break. Meeting called back to order. Remember there are elections next month and the offices available are : 1. Secretary 2. Treasurer nomination committee is Dave Vrooman and George Hudson. If you want run or make a nomination, talk to these gentlemen. Old Business: Vancouver Veteran's Day Parade November 9th and muster before Muster will be somewhere on Evergreen Blvd. I'll get the specific info out through Bob Walters when I get it. Dennis Smith will tow the trailer this year. Christmas Dinner: the party will be held at the Monarch again the tickets will be $15 ea and you will have your choice of: 1. Beef 2. Vegetarian Pasta 3. Chicken pasta 4. Chicken meal. I have the tickets for sale now. You must purchase a ticket ahead of time and let him know which meal you prefer. Tickets will be available thru the November meeting. We would like to thank the Ladies for another wonderful meal tonight Benediction: J.D. Meeting Adjourned!!! Sailing List: Bryan, Corbett, Curtis, Darkes, Davis, Dennis,Dolan, Fitzgerald, Gatchel, Hager, Hudson, Jackson, Johnson, Lough, McComiskey, Nowland, Carneau, Scott, Smart, Smith, Stevens, Thornhill, Thrall, Vrooman, Walters, Webb, Whitmarsh, Mansfield, Fred Davis, 29 souls aboard. Respectfully Submitted by: Larry l. Johnson RM1(SS) Quote Mark Twain, " Going to sea is like being in jail with the possibility of drowning".

3 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 3 November Lost Boats USS Albacore (SS-218) Lost on Nov 7, 1944 with the loss of 85 men when she was sunk off northern Hokkaido. Winner of two Presidential Unit Citations, Albacore was on her eleventh war patrol and struck a mine while running submerged near a Japanese patrol craft that had detected her. USS Growler (SS-215) Lost on Nov 8, 1944 with the loss of 86 men when she was sunk in the South China Sea. Winner of two Navy Unit Commendations, Growler was on her 12th war patrol, and was lost while attacking a convoy, probably as a result of a depth charge attack or victim of a circular run by one of her own torpedoes. USS Scamp (SS-277) Lost on Nov 9, 1944 with the loss of 83 men near Tokyo Bay. On her 8th war patrol, she may have been damaged by a mine and was trailing oil, which helped Japanese coast defense vessels locate her and destroy her with depth charges. USS Corvina (SS-226) Lost on Nov 16, 1943 with the loss of 82 men when she was sunk just south of Truk. Corvina was on her 1st war patrol and appears she was lost to the torpedoes of a Japanese submarine. USS Sculpin (SS-191) Lost on Nov 19, 1943 with the loss of 63 men near Truk. Severely damaged by depth charges after attacking an enemy convoy, Sculpin continued to fight on the surface. When the captain was killed, the crew abandoned ship and scuttled Sculpin. 41 men were taken prisoner; only 21 survived the war. Among those not abandoning ship was CAPT Cromwell,aboard as a potential wolfpack commander, he rode the Sculpin down, fearing that vital information in his possession might be compromised under torture. For this, CAPT Cromwell was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. ALL GAVE SOME SOME GAVE ALL Eternal Patrol Our friend and shipmate, Harold J. Schumock, has passed to Eternal Patrol. He was a member of the Loggers Chapter of the US Submarine Veterans of World War II and a member of the Blueback Base of The Submarine Veterans Inc. Hal was a proud member of the greatest generation and most recently had made the Honor Flight in September to the WWII Memorial in Washington DC. He was very impressed with the Memorials and especially pleased to be acknowledged by Representative Greg Walden of Oregon as one of the three submariners in the group. On the returning flight, the pilot of Southwest Airlines also praised him during the flight back home. Hal suffered an aneurism a few years back and had declined to have the surgery to attempt a repair. More recently he had some difficulty with that and had elected to undergo the surgery in spite of the hazard associated. The surgery began after he had the opportunity of talking to the family members early Sunday morning and it was to be a 4 to 8 hour long ordeal. It was not however, successful and he passed about 7 am Sunday morning. His wife, Zora, and the family have not yet planned the timing of the ceremonies and will inform us beforehand. He did want to be interred at Willamette National Cemetery. Hal was a Torpedoman 2/c and served on the USS Picuda SS-382 and the USS Sirago SS485, during He later was in the US Army Reserve and served as a Lieutenant. He will be greatly missed. October Meeting At the October meeting Tudor Davis and his Son Fred gave a presentation on their recent Honor Flight trip to Washington DC. John Mansfield also attended the meeting. Below are a couple of photos from that meeting. Remember our shipmates on eternal patrol through out the year

4 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 4 Doolittle Raiders - A Final Toast It's the cup of brandy that no one wants to drink. On Tuesday, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, the surviving Doolittle Raiders gathered publicly for the last time. They once were among the most universally admired and revered men in the United States. There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942, when they carried out one of the most courageous and heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring tears to the eyes of grateful Americans. Now only four survive. After Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, with the United States reeling and wounded, something dramatic was needed to turn the war effort around. Even though there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was devised. Sixteen B-25s were modified so that they could take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried -- sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier. The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet, knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier. They would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a safe landing. But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military caught wind of the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted on. They were told that because of this they would not have enough fuel to make it to safety. And those men went anyway. They bombed Tokyo, and then flew as far as they could. Four planes crash-landed; 11 more crews bailed out, and three of the Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed. Another died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to Russia. The Doolittle Raid sent a message from the United States to its enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no matter what it takes, we will win. Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a motion picture based on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was presenting the story "with supreme pride." Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson, Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with the name of a Raider. Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn witness. Also in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born. There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving Raiders, they would open the bottle, at last drink from it, and toast their comrades who preceded them in death. As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February, Tom Griffin passed away at age 96. What a man he was. After bailing out of his plane over a mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp. The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts... there was a passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on the surface, had nothing to do with the war, but that emblematizes the depth of his sense of duty and devotion: "When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home, he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for three years until her death in 2005." (Continued on Page 6)

5 FYI Up Coming Events For the Blueback Base, Plan Ahead November: 9th Veterans Day Parade Vancouver 14th Base Meeting No Chow This Month December: 11th (Wednesday) Blueback Annual Christmas Dinner January: Happy New Year 9th - Base Meeting No Chow February: 13th Base Meeting Chow? March: 13th - Base Meeting April: 10th -Base Meeting (Please let the Editor know if we have missed anything.) VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 5 Good for the Order Binnacle List Kathy Vrooman is off Chemo and waiting to determin what the next step is, she sounds good. Herb Herman is still in Phoenix, AZ. He is home their Phoenix home. Herb is having therapy at home and it looks like some time before they can return to their northwest home. Lets keep our ailing shipmates and family members in our thoughts and prayers as we go forward each day ***************************** Blueback Base Business Cards Anyone who needs additional cards, send a self addressed stamped envelope to: Bob Sumner 109 Legacy Drive Woodland, WA I will send 10 cards at a time. ******************************** USSVI DUES ANNUAL NATIONAL BASE 1 Yr. $20.00 $ Yr. pre-pay $55.00 $15.00 / Yr. 5 Yr. pre-pay $90.00 $15.00 / Yr. LIFE NATIONAL BASE < Age 45 $ $ Ages Yrs. $ $ Ages Yrs. $ $ Ages Yrs. $ $ Ages 76 + $ $50.00 In addition to the above there is a $7.00 one time fee for new base members, to pay for a nametag. Humor Support our Troops Bill Bryan and his wife Shelia continue to ship your contributions to our troops. Most of the packages go to Afghanistan. Your thoughtfulness and generosity is greatly appreciated by those who receive care packages from home. Bring your donations to the next meeting or contact them at (360) ******************************** From: Ron Collins, November 01, :31 AM Subject: Big Day Today was the greatest day of my life and that of my sons as he assumed command of the US Chung Hoon DDG 93 in Pearl Harbor. He has worked very hard to reach this goal and is facing even a greater challenge but I know he is up to it and will continue to make all his family and friends very proud of him.

6 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 6 (Doolittle s Raiders Continued from Page 4) So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue. The events in Fort Walton Beach this week will mark the end. It has come full circle; Florida's nearby Eglin Field was where the Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town is planning to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration of their valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade. Do the men ever wonder if those of us for whom they helped save the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at least not around other people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell you from firsthand observation that they appreciate hearing that they are remembered. The men have decided that after this final public reunion they will wait until a later date -- some time this year -- to get together once more, informally and in absolute privacy. That is when they will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of them. They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets. And raise them in a toast to those who are gone. Their 70th Anniversary Photo Ohio Replacement Submarine Starts Early Construction by Kris Osborn on October 24, 2013 The U.S. Navy is in the early phases of prototyping, building specs, and doing design work on its next generation nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine the Ohio Replacement Program, service leaders said at the 2013 Naval Submarine League, Falls Church, Va. The new ship, slated for construction by 2021, will replace the existing fleet of Ohio Class submarines, a class of ballistic missile submarines. The service s chief of naval operations approved the Capability Definition Document last year, leading to prototyping, design work and construction. We ll complete 161 ship spec sections this year needed to define the hull and mechanical and electrical systems. This early-stage work is critical to achieving a design that is 80-percent complete by construction s start and producible with few design errors, said Rear Adm. Dave Johnson, Program Executive Officer, Submarines. Navy program managers with the Ohio Replacement Program, or ORP, describe the CDD as integral to much of the ongoing work. It helps us understand the requirements upfront so we can work toward executing them in the most cost-effective way possible. said Capt. William Brougham, ORP Manager, in an interview with Military.com. The Ohio Replacement Program submarine, designed to be 560 feet long with 44 foot-long missile tubes, is being engineered to be a stealthy, high-tech strategic nuclear deterrent able to quietly patrol through the global undersea domain. Their presence is designed to ensure a nuclear counter-strike capability in the event of attack. The ORP is slated to serve through 2085 and conduct 124 patrols per-ship, Johnson said. Construction, testing and design work is underway at a handful of locations around the U.S. and in the U.K., as part of the ongoing technology development phase, or TD phase. The Navy s Ohio Replacement Program is being worked on by Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics, under a five-year, $1.85 billion deal. Like other high-priority programs in DoD, the ORP effort t faces substantial financial challenges due to the current fiscal environment, sequestration and the lack of a fiscal year 2014 budget. I ve never seen such a persistently unstable budget in my 31 years in acquisition. We can never forget that our submarine force and our nation are counting on us to succeed, Johnson said. In particular, if sequester continues and if there are more continuing resolutions, the Navy will have to delay ORP production by as long as two years, Navy officials said. Meanwhile, the Navy is working vigorously to lower the per ship cost of the ORP down to below $5 billion. (Continued on Page 7)

7 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 7 (Continued From Page 6) The Ohio Replacement Program has a daunting challenge. We have to cut the average ship procurement cost by $700 million dollars in 2010 dollars to get to our affordability target of $4.9 billion, Johnson. Part of the cost saving strategy is built into the acquisition and contracting approach, Johnson said. The R&D contract with Electric Boat maintains discrete incentives for reaching specific non-recurring operation and support cost. This is the first time a ship-building research and development contract has tied substantive incentive fees to cost reduction areas across the entire life cycle, Johnson said. Elements of the missile tubes are already under construction as part of a U.S./U.K. common missile compartment deal to mutually develop and benefit from the technology. Hardware for this common missile compartment is already being purchased for a Navy test facility in Port Canaveral, Fla., Johnson said. Overall, the U.K. plans to build 48 individual missile tubes and the U.S. plans to build 192 of the same, Johnson said. The common missile compartment is being worked on by General Dynamics Electric Boat under a $770 million contract. The U.S. and U.K. are buying parts together for the common missile compartment and the U.K. has decided to buy all of its missile tubes off of the U.S. production line, Brougham said. In total, the U.K. plans to build four nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines, each configured with 12 missile tubes. The U.S., by contrast, is planning on 12 ships, each with 16 missile tubes. In particular, Brougham said construction is underway on what s called an integrated tube and hull forging, a structure connecting the tube and steel cylinder with support systems and portions of what will be part of the hull. At the bottom of the tube there is another section called the eject chamber which is also welded to the hull. This is designed to eject the missile, Brougham said. The ORP will be engineered to fire the Trident II D5 missile along with heavyweight torpedos. In fact, the Navy plans to restart production of the Mk 48 Heavyweight Torpedoes by 2016, Johnson said. While the ORP will be armed with heavyweight torpedoes, there function is purely defensive in nature, meaning they only are there to protect the ship if it comes under attack. Conventional attack missions are not part of the ORPs mission scope, Brougham said. We are a nuclear strategic deterrent. This is a single function submarine that does strategic deterrence, he added. If the program stays on track, the ORP will begin construction in 2021 and then go to sea for three years in 2028 for testing and certification before launching on its first strategic patrol in 2031, Brougham explained. The TD phase also includes research and investment in certain key areas, such as electric drive, x-shaped stern and propulsion shaft research. The Navy is looking to develop propulsion shaft technology for the ORP that can last as long as 12 years, under an immense amount of strain. We have to make sure the shaft has the operational availability that we need, a Navy official said. The Navy is also working on software, computer modeling and something the Navy calls strategic weapons systems, an effort designed to look at individual components for the missile tubes such as valves, hatches and other technologies. The U.S. Navy is in the early phases of prototyping, building specs, and doing design work on its next generation nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine the Ohio Replacement Program, service leaders said at the 2013 Naval Submarine League, Falls Church, Va. The new ship, slated for construction by 2021, will replace the existing fleet of Ohio Class submarines, a class of ballistic missile submarines. The service s chief of naval operations approved the Capability Definition Document last year, leading to prototyping, design work and construction. We ll complete 161 ship spec sections this year needed to define the hull and mechanical and electrical systems. This early-stage work is critical to achieving a design that is 80-percent complete by construction s start and producible with few design errors, said Rear Adm. Dave Johnson, Program Executive Officer, Submarines. Navy program managers with the Ohio Replacement Program, or ORP, describe the CDD as integral to much of the ongoing work. It helps us understand the requirements upfront so we can work toward executing them in the most cost-effective way possible. said Capt. William Brougham, ORP Manager, in an interview with Military.com. The Ohio Replacement Program submarine, designed to be 560 feet long with 44 foot-long missile tubes, is being engineered to be a stealthy, high-tech strategic nuclear deterrent able to quietly patrol through the global undersea domain. Their presence is designed to ensure a nuclear counter-strike capability in the event of attack. The ORP is slated to serve through 2085 and conduct 124 patrols per-ship, Johnson said. Construction, testing and design work is underway at a handful of locations around the U.S. and in the U.K., as part of the ongoing technology development phase, or TD phase. The Navy s Ohio Replacement Program is being worked on by Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics, under a five-year, $1.85 billion deal. Like other high-priority programs in DoD, the ORP effort faces substantial financial challenges due to the current fiscal environment, sequestration and the lack of a fiscal year 2014 budget. I ve never seen such a persistently unstable budget in my 31 years in acquisition. We can never forget that our submarine force and our nation are counting on us to succeed, Johnson said. In particular, if sequester continues and if there are more continuing resolutions, the Navy will have to delay ORP production by as long as two years, Navy officials said. Meanwhile, the Navy is working vigorously to lower the per ship cost of the ORP down to below $5 billion. (Continued on Page 8)

8 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 8 (Continued From Page 7) The Ohio Replacement Program has a daunting challenge. We have to cut the average ship procurement cost by $700 million dollars in 2010 dollars to get to our affordability target of $4.9 billion, Johnson. Part of the cost saving strategy is built into the acquisition and contracting approach, Johnson said. The R&D contract with Electric Boat maintains discrete incentives for reaching specific non-recurring operation and support cost. This is the first time a ship-building research and development contract has tied substantive incentive fees to cost reduction areas across the entire life cycle, Johnson said. Elements of the missile tubes are already under construction as part of a U.S./U.K. common missile compartment deal to mutually develop and benefit from the technology. Hardware for this common missile compartment is already being purchased for a Navy test facility in Port Canaveral, Fla., Johnson said. Overall, the U.K. plans to build 48 individual missile tubes and the U.S. plans to build 192 of the same, Johnson said. The common missile compartment is being worked on by General Dynamics Electric Boat under a $770 million contract. The U.S. and U.K. are buying parts together for the common missile compartment and the U.K. has decided to buy all of its missile tubes off of the U.S. production line, Brougham said. In total, the U.K. plans to build four nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines, each configured with 12 missile tubes. The U.S., by contrast, is planning on 12 ships, each with 16 missile tubes. In particular, Brougham said construction is underway on what s called an integrated tube and hull forging, a structure connecting the tube and steel cylinder with support systems and portions of what will be part of the hull. At the bottom of the tube there is another section called the eject chamber which is also welded to the hull. This is designed to eject the missile, Brougham said. The ORP will be engineered to fire the Trident II D5 missile along with heavyweight torpedos. In fact, the Navy plans to restart production of the Mk 48 Heavyweight Torpedoes by 2016, Johnson said. While the ORP will be armed with heavyweight torpedoes, there function is purely defensive in nature, meaning they only are there to protect the ship if it comes under attack. Conventional attack missions are not part of the ORPs mission scope, Brougham said. We are a nuclear strategic deterrent. This is a single function submarine that does strategic deterrence, he added. If the program stays on track, the ORP will begin construction in 2021 and then go to sea for three years in 2028 for testing and certification before launching on its first strategic patrol in 2031, Brougham explained. The TD phase also includes research and investment in certain key areas, such as electric drive, x-shaped stern and propulsion shaft research. The Navy is looking to develop propulsion shaft technology for the ORP that can last as long as 12 years, under an immense amount of strain. We have to make sure the shaft has the operational availability that we need, a Navy official said. The Navy is also working on software, computer modeling and something the Navy calls strategic weapons systems, an effort designed to look at individual components for the missile tubes such as valves, hatches and other technologies. ********************************************************* Honor Flights As most of you are aware, there is a group that is providing trips to Washington DC. For WWII veterans. Any WWII veterans that have not been honored with this trip should make inquiries.. Refer to the following contact information for the Honor Flight program. The Western Washington State point of contact is: Jim and Renée Peavey. Their phone number is Their address is info@pugetsoundhonorflight.org The Eastern Washington point of contact is Tony Lamanna His phone number is His address is request@inwhonorflight.org The Oregon State point of contact for Portland is: Eric Denser and his phone number is: (503) (Portland, OR) For more information you can go to the following website: I recommend you go to that website and follow the links to download the applications for both the Military Veteran and the Guardian. Please let me know if you have anymore questions or need any assistance. If needed I can make copies of the applications and send them to anyone needing them. Supply me with your mailing address and I will send them to you. The Editor

9 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 9 Be Sure To Vote Remember The Veterans Day Parade November 9th Assembly at Evergreen Blvd. Vancouver WA. before 10:30

10 VENTING SANITARY Inboard November 2013 Page 10 Thanksgiving (U.S.) Find and circle all of the words that are hidden in the grid. The remaining 26 letters spell a popular Thanksgiving Day event. ANNUAL AUTUMN CELEBRATION CORN CRANBERRY FAMILY FEAST FESTIVAL FOOD FOOTBALL FRIENDS GATHERING GRAVY HARVEST HOLIDAY LONG WEEKEND MASHED POTATOES MEAL NOVEMBER PARADE PILGRIMS PLYMOUTH PUMPKIN PIE RELATIVES REUNION SQUASH STUFFING SWEET POTATO THURSDAY TRADITION TRAVEL TURKEY WAMPANOAG YAMS October Hidden Message CHOCOLATE ORIGINATES FROM THE SEEDS OF THE THEOBROAMA CACAO TREE